This is a set of lecture notes given by the author at the Universities of Göttingen and Wroclaw. The text presents the axiomatic approach to field theory and studies in depth the concepts of symmetry and supersymmetry and their associated generators, currents and charges. It is intended as a one-semester course for graduate students in the field of mathematical physics and high energy physics.
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Introduction To Symmetry And Supersymmetry In Quantum Field Theory
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Table of contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 2 EXAMPLE OF A CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM SCALAR FREE FIELD THEORY
- Chapter 3 SCENE AND SUBJECT OF THE DRAMA. AXIOMS 1 AND 2.
- Chapter 4 PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY. CAUSALITY. AXIOMS 3, 4 AND 5.
- Chapter 5 IRREDUCIBILITY OF THE FIELD ALGEBRA AND THE SCATTERING THEORY. AXIOM 6. AXIOM 0.
- Chapter 6 PRELIMINARIES ABOUT PHYSICAL SYMMETRIES
- Chapter 7 GLOBAL SYMMETRIES AND SUPERSYMMETRIES OF THE 5-MATRIX
- Chapter 8 REPRESENTATIONS OF THE SUPER-LIE ALGEBRA
- Chapter 9 THE CASE OF MASSLESS PARTICLES
- Chapter 10 CONCLUDING REMARKS
- Appendix 1 BISPINORS
- Appendix 2 FREE QUANTUM FIELDS
- Appendix 3 SCATTERING THEORY OF HAAG, RUELLE AND HEPP
- Appendix 4 THE REEH-SCHLIEDER AND JOST-SCHROER THEOREMS
- Appendix 5 THE WIGHTMAN FORMALISM AND THE RECONSTRUCTION THEOREM
- Appendix 6 NOETHER THEOREM
- Appendix 7 SOME USEFUL FORMULAE
- INDEX
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